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Virtual empathy as digital competence in education 3.0

The social and interactive dimension has taken on particular relevance with the appearance of new technologies in education, making the capacity for virtual empathy a key competence for promoting learning proc...

Authors: Rafael García-Pérez, Juan-Manuel Santos-Delgado and Olga Buzón-García

Pedagogic dilemmas to flows of knowledge in the age of digital technology

The main purpose of this paper is to argue why we adopted the socio-technical system as a heuristic device. We understand it is a good methodological resource to interpret what is happening in education system...

Authors: Ángel San Martín Alonso and Ángel García del Dujo

From massive access to cooperation: lessons learned and proven results of a hybrid xMOOC/cMOOC pedagogical approach to MOOCs

The low completion rate for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), averaging 10 % across total enrolment, highlights a need for close analysis of the underlying formative model. The methodology used here involve...

Authors: Ángel Fidalgo-Blanco, María Luisa Sein-Echaluce and Francisco José García-Peñalvo

The use of wiki to promote students’ learning in higher education (Degree in Pharmacy)

Nowadays, the expansion of new technologies in developed countries requires their inclusion in the higher educational systems, focused on the development of new skills to promote a continuous and independent l...

Authors: M. Encarnación Camacho, M. Dora Carrión, Mariem Chayah and Joaquín M. Campos

The influence of the internet for pedagogical innovation: using twitter to promote online collaborative learning

This article analyses a practice of formative peer-assessment based on an experience in university teaching innovation. From a review of the literature on feedback for self-regulation, the traits of formative ...

Authors: Maite Fernández-Ferrer and Elena Cano

The flipped classroom model at the university: analysis based on professors’ and students’ assessment in the educational field

We find ourselves in the era of a new paradigm of education, in which learning ceases to be an internal and individual activity and becomes an activity performed collectively, critically, in participation with...

Authors: Òscar Flores, Isabel del-Arco and Patricia Silva

E-assessment process: giving a voice to online learners

Considering the expansion of active pedagogies that consider the student as the centre of the teaching and learning process, their role during the assessment process cannot be overlooked. That implies a change...

Authors: Teresa Romeu Fontanillas, Marc Romero Carbonell and Montse Guitert Catasús

Using e-Assessment to enhance student learning and evidence learning outcomes

Authors: Geoffrey Crisp, Lourdes Guàrdia and Mathew Hillier

Using comparative judgement and online technologies in the assessment and measurement of creative performance and capability

In this paper we argue that comparative judgement delivered by online technologies is a viable, valid and highly reliable alternative to traditional analytical marking. In the past, comparative judgement has b...

Authors: Pina Tarricone and C. Paul Newhouse

Written peer-feedback to enhance students’ current and future learning

Spanish universities are engaged in the implementation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). This process implies the use of the most effective instructional designs and methodologies in order to achie...

Authors: Georgeta Ion, Aleix Barrera-Corominas and Marina Tomàs-Folch

Aligning learning outcomes and assessment methods: a web tool for e-learning courses

A learning outcome approach to teaching and a learning-oriented assessment are increasingly framing higher education. In an attempt to facilitate professors’ teaching activities, the TALOE (Time to Assess Lear...

Authors: Inés Gil-Jaurena and Sandra Kucina Softic

Tertiary student attitudes to invigilated, online summative examinations

The outcomes of a trial implementation of an invigilated, online examination at a regional university in Australia and their implications for online education providers are discussed. Students in a first year ...

Authors: Rosalind James

The impact of usable system for regression analysis in higher education

In Mexico, both universities and professors are changing the teaching-learning process in order to improve the conditions that prevail in the classroom. These modifications are making instructors include the u...

Authors: Ricardo Adán Salas-Rueda

Analizying MOOCs from an educational perspective in Spain

This article is the result of a Teaching Innovation Project funded by the University of Cantabria’s Vice-Rectorate for Teaching Staff. Its goals are to analyze the phenomenon of MOOCs with pedagogical criteria...

Authors: Adelina Calvo Salvador and Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos

Delphi study for the design and validation of a questionnaire about digital competences in higher education

The study of digital competence remains an issue of interest for both the scientific community and the supranational political agenda. This study uses the Delphi method to validate the design of a questionnair...

Authors: Santiago Mengual-Andrés, Rosabel Roig-Vila and Josefa Blasco Mira

Initial evidence to validate an instructional design-derived evaluation scale in higher education programs

Instructional design has been a key strategy in ensuring the quality of higher education; therefore, it is essential to evaluate its effects on learning processes through the use of tools that comply with defi...

Authors: Tania Moreira-Mora and Julia Espinoza-Guzmán

Educational innovation and digital competencies: the case of OER in a private Venezuelan university

The challenge for universities in developing countries of Latin America is to provide quality education and to promote the development of the digital competencies necessary for an active citizenship. Neverthel...

Authors: Marcella Solange Prince Machado, Gloria Concepción Tenorio Sepúlveda and Maria Soledad Ramirez Montoya

Applying action research in CAD teaching to improve the learning experience and academic level

A project involving innovation in university education is described in this paper. It was implemented in a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) course on the Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design and Product Developme...

Authors: Veronica Gracia-Ibáñez and Margarita Vergara

Network analysis for the study of technological collaboration in spaces for innovation. Science and technology parks and their relationship with the university

Universities have become a strategic element in the innovation process. Knowledge-based innovation makes them key players for the economic and social development of their environment. This article discusses ho...

Authors: Mariona Farré-Perdiguer, Mercè Sala-Rios and Teresa Torres-Solé

Academic and research networks management: challenges for higher education institutions in Mexico

Social and economic development of countries or regions requires advances in science, technology and education. To accomplish this goal, governments have taken the decision of connecting, through the Internet,...

Authors: Adriana Valencia Valencia and María del Carmen Trejo Cázares

Learning/training video clips: an efficient tool for improving learning outcomes in Mechanical Engineering

An innovative blended-learning strategy is presented for the subject Laboratory of Elasticity and Strength of Materials, based on the use of different tools combining face-to-face methods with e-learning technolo...

Authors: Silvia De la Flor López, Francesc Ferrando and Albert Fabregat-Sanjuan

Development and evaluation of the team work skill in university contexts. Are virtual environments effective?

Soft skills refer to those personal competencies affecting the way we interact with people and they include aspects such as communication, listening, negotiating, team work, leadership, ethics, commitment, etc...

Authors: Mercedes García García, Chantal Biencinto López, Elvira Carpintero Molina, Eva Expósito Casas and Yovanni A. Ruiz Morales

Learning strategies and styles as a basis for building personal learning environments

This paper presents the results and reflections from a study conducted on students using the e-learning mode from the Panamerican University Foundation. The aim of the study was to identify learning strategies...

Authors: Blanca J. Parra

A framework for assessing fitness for purpose in open educational resources

Despite all the benefits claimed for open education resources (OER), studies reveal that these are used less than anticipated. One reason for this is potential users’ uncertainty over whether the products’ aim...

Authors: Insung Jung, Teruyoshi Sasaki and Colin Latchem

Game-based learning and gamification in initial teacher training in the social sciences: an experiment with MinecraftEdu

This study analyzes the application of game-based learning and gamification using MinecraftEdu, which allows for an exploration of the possibilities regarding immersive learning environments. We analyze the co...

Authors: Ramón Cózar-Gutiérrez and José Manuel Sáez-López

New era and challenges for a consolidated journal in educational technology in higher education

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

Editorial

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

Editorial

Authors: Josep M. Duart and Rosalind James

Temporal learning analytics visualizations for increasing awareness during assessment

Visual representations of student-generated trace data during learning activities help both students and instructors interpret them intuitively and perceive hidden aspects of these data quickly. In this paper,...

Authors: Zacharoula Papamitsiou and Anastasios A. Economides

Log Analysis in a Virtual Learning Environment for Engineering Students

The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at different educational levels has impacted the teaching-learning process. ICTs have effectively become tools that support educational environments...

Authors: Gilles Lavigne, Genoveva Gutiérrez Ruiz, Lewis McAnally-Salas and Javier Organista Sandoval

Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: differences, similarities, and time evolution

Technological progress in recent decades has enabled people to learn in different ways. Universities now have more educational models to choose from, i.e., b-learning and e-learning. Despite the increasing opp...

Authors: Laura Calvet Liñán and Ángel Alejandro Juan Pérez

Relationship between hours spent on the Internet and Web 2.0 in Higher Education

This article analyses the relationship between the number of hours spent by university students on the Internet and their attitude, training, use, impact and perception of difficulties in Web 2.0 integration, ...

Authors: Ángel Boza Carreño and Sara Conde Vélez

21^st-Century Instructional Designers: Bridging the Perceptual Gaps between Identity, Practice, Impact and Professional Development

The purpose of this paper is to discuss instructional designers’ current status through a brief discussion of the history of instructional design, comparison of instructional design models, and a presentation ...

Authors: Afsaneh Sharif and Sunah Cho

Teaching methodology used in the master’s degree programme for secondary education teacher training: student assessment

This study analyses future secondary school teachers’ perceptions of the teaching methodology used in a teacher training master’s degree programme. A descriptive study was designed and the data were collected ...

Authors: María del Carmen Pegalajar Palomino

Methodological proposal for the application of international benchmarking in order to assess the quality of virtual higher education

This research focuses on providing a benchmarking methodology that allows any university offering virtual education (e-learning or b-learning) to compare itself to the best international universities in order ...

Authors: Renata Marciniak

Twitter as a resource to evaluate the university teaching process

The widespread use of social networks among college students has an excellent potential for academic purposes. The university has in its own students an important source of information that can be used to eval...

Authors: Jonatan García Suárez, Carmen Trigueros Cervantes and Enrique Rivera García

Assessing the impact of the “Entrepreneurs” education programme on participants’ entrepreneurial intentions

The study of students’ entrepreneurial intentions and the influencing factors is especially relevant for the development of education programmes, as is the monitoring of those programmes to assess whether they...

Authors: Cristina Díaz-García, Francisco Sáez-Martínez and Juan Jiménez-Moreno

Digital literacy for teachers in Cuban Tourism and Hotel Management Schools. Some experiences on its development

Digital literacy for teachers has been a widely studied topic in recent years, and several studies have been conducted featuring student-oriented ICT competency models and frameworks. This research aims to dev...

Authors: Raidell Avello Martínez and Raúl López Fernández

New learning scenarios for the 21^st century related to Education, Culture and Technology

This paper presents a summary of proposals and new learning scenarios for the 21^st century related to the theme of “Education, Culture and Technology”. These proposals and scenarios are based on the work conducte...

Authors: Cristina Yáñez, Alexandra Okada and Ramon Palau

Recent Developments in Technology-Enhanced Learning: A Critical Assessment

Our societies are considered knowledge societies in which lifelong learning is becoming increasingly important. At the same time, digital technologies are entering almost every aspect of our lives and now play...

Authors: Karl Steffens, Brenda Bannan, Barney Dalgarno, Antonio R. Bartolome, Vanessa Esteve-González and José María Cela-Ranilla

Ethics and Education in the Digital Age: Global Perspectives and Strategies for Local Transformation in Catalonia

The purpose of this paper is to provide a global analysis and a synthesis of emerging ethical issues, situations, and questions that face educators using digital technologies. The authors offer a conceptual fr...

Authors: Don Olcott Jr., Xavier Carrera Farran, Eliana Esther Gallardo Echenique and Juan González Martínez

Inclusion and Social Cohesion in a Digital Society

The information and knowledge society requires citizens to be ever more digitally literate. In both formal and informal environments, education has a prominent role in promoting inclusion and social integratio...

Authors: José L. Lázaro Cantabrana, Meritxell Estebanell Minguell and Juan Carlos Tedesco

Teacher training: technology helping to develop an innovative and reflective professional profile

The society of the early twenty-first century is characterized as the knowledge society. Schools cannot afford to remain detached from the fast-moving changes that are taking place and have therefore made inno...

Authors: Pedro Hepp K, Miquel Àngel Prats Fernández and Josep Holgado García

The educational landscape of the digital age: Communication practices pushing (us) forward

This paper identifies trends in the emerging models of knowledge production available in our society. We suggest it is crucial not only to be aware of these emerging models but also to be open to opportunities...

Authors: Janaina Minelli de Oliveira, Danah Henriksen, Linda Castañeda, Marta Marimon, Elena Barberà, Carles Monereo, César Coll, Jabari Mahiri and Punya Mishra

Education and technology: new learning environments from a transformative perspective

The process of digitization that is increasingly entering all aspects of our lives (personal, academic, professional and social) requires education to undergo a profound transformation, and communication and l...

Authors: Mercè Gisbert Cervera and Larry Johnson

Pedagogía y democratización de la universidad

Juan Carlos Tedesco, Claudia Aberbuj e Ivana Zacarías aportan con su obra una reflexión interesante de la situación de la universidad hoy. Realizan su enfoque desde la pedagogía pero con una clara visión de po...

Authors: Josep M. Duart

La expansión del conocimiento en abierto: los MOOC

La irrupción de la formación en abierto, masiva y gratuita ha supuesto una revolución pedagógica en estos dos últimos años, hasta el punto de ser considerada el hito educativo más importante del año 2012. Bajo...

Authors: M. Esther del Moral Pérez

Indicators of pedagogical quality for the design of a Massive Open Online Course for teacher training

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have generated high expectations and revolutionized some educational practices by providing open educational resources for reference, usage and adaptation; therefore, their ...

Authors: Lorena Yadira Alemán de la Garza, Teresa Sancho-Vinuesa and Marcela Georgina Gómez Zermeño

Self-motivation challenges for student involvement in the Open Educational Movement with MOOC

This article attempts to answer the questions: What are the challenges, problems and obstacles of involving less self-motivated students in MOOCs and how do they relate to their learning connectivism? The corr...

Authors: Brenda Jeanett García Espinosa, Gloria Concepción Tenorio Sepúlveda and María Soledad Ramírez Montoya

Mobile learning: perspectives

From a technical perspective, the future of learning is defined by four axes around which technological and methodological efforts revolve. These axes are mobility, interaction, artificial intelligence and tec...

Authors: Juan Carlos Torres Diaz, Alfonso Infante Moro and Pablo Vicente Torres Carrión